Got new computer (debian 12), installed grafana enterprise. I can log in as admin, but no dashboards there. Try to log in as user to get to my multiple dashboards, but the password I’ve saved in my password manager is not accepted. Click ‘forgot password’, entered my email, says ‘email sent’, but no email ever arrives. Stuck! Thanks in advance…
Do you have email configure for your grafana install,
Sorry, don’t understand the question. Where/how would I configure email for my grafana install? Thanks.
Ok that tells me you have not configured it 
Probably better to use the grafana-cli to change the user password
Thanks, but the issue is that I’m hoping to retrieve the grafana dashboards I spent countless hours building before I changed my 15 year old desktop computer from a new one. I have good backups of the old computer, hoping there is a way to import those dashboards to my new Linux box. Grafana was running as a local server, btw. I do have admin on the new local grafana server. Influxdb, was was also running as a local server on the old machine, since it is my grafana source, would also need to be ported. Sort of hoping that there is an SQLite db or something that contains all that data.
It’s probably too late, but is there a ‘ best practice ‘ regarding importing Influxdb/grafana onto a new server?
Best practice is to back up the sqlite database in data folder. What version were you on and can you access the old data folder
Thanks for your input, yosiasz, you put me on the right track. I found a good how-to (Gemini) for migrating to a new server and my backups contain all the /var/lib and /etc Influxdb and grafana files required.
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they key folders are data and conf folders. als0 make sure new grafana is same version as previous one from 15 year computer
Yes. Data under /var/lib/grafana/ and conf at /etc/grafana/grafana.ini
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